Hong Kong’s Cash Cows and White Elephants

Lowu-Shenzhen Border (Photo by Derrick Chang)

Hong Kong’s urban planners may be on their way to a new adventure, signaled by an August 9 report by a government-linked think tank proposing that Hong Kong and Shenzhen join hands to create “China’s world-class metropolis.” Four days after the release, Government Secretary Henry Tang, in a speech to the Hong…